Improvement in shelvings for wagons



G. R. CANNON.

Wagon-Body.

No. 59.356 Patented Nov. 6, 1866.

' www W 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFr'IoEc GEORGE R. CANNON, OF GUILFORD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SH ELVINGS FOR WGONS.

Specifieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 59.356, dated November 6, 1866.

To all lwhom it may concem:

Be it known that I, GEoRGE R. CANNON, of Guilford, in the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful [mprovement in Shelvings for Wagons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being' had to the accompanying drawings,^forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a Wagon-box with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan orV capable of being put upon or removed from the Wagon by one person without much trouble or labor.

A designates the top rail of a wagon box. B are the cross-beams for supporting the planks or longitudinal strips. These crossbeams have grooves a a (see Fig. 2) cut in their under sides, of a shape to permit the top rail of the Wagon-box to partially enter, and so as to insure the said cross-pieces resting firmly thereon. A metal yoke or clamp, b, is

employed, which is so secured as to hold the cross-beams firmly upon the wagon when the ends of the top rails of the box have been thrust between it and the cross-beams B; and a hook, c, is employed in each side, which sinks into a reces's in the end rails, and prevents the crosspieces B from moving out of place.

C designates the longitudinal strips or planks of the shelvings. The face of each of these planks C carries near each end a hook, d, the two hooks in each plank pointing in opposite directions; and these hooks are intended to hook into staples secured to the tops of the cross-beams B, as shown clearly in Fig. 3.

D D are braces secured to each plank C in such manner that their lower ends will bear against the body or truck of the wagon, and thus serve as an additional support to the plank C at intermediate points of 'theirlength between the cross-beams B.

From the above description-it will be seen that every part of the shelving is separate from theother, and thus the shelving is rendered more portable, and can be easily put upon and removed from a Wagon-box by one person, which cannot Vbe well done with shelvings as at present constructed, without consid'erable strength and -a great deal of trouble.

What Il claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Securing the cross-beams B to the top rail of the wagon, substantially as specified.

l2. The manner of securing the planks C to the cross-beams B, substantially as described.

3. The employment of bracesD for supportin g the planks O between the cross-beams B, substantially. as described.

GEO. R. CANNON. Witnesses;

FRANoIs E. CooK, J. P. WIDEMAN. 

